Floodlit (Edinburgh Castle) 1938

Jessie Traill (1881-1967)

Floodlit (Edinburgh Castle) 1938

etching and aquatint
13.6 x 19.9 cm (image); 21.1 x 29.1 cm (sheet)

titled, numbered, inscribed, signed and dated lower centre: Flood Lit 4 (third state) to Zena [sic] C.S. from JCA Traill 1938/ Dec 1954

edition: 4 (unknown); state: 3/3

Provenance:

Gift from the artist to Zina Cumbrae-Stewart, December 1954

Private collection, Melbourne

Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 29 July 2020, lot 131

Private collection, Melbourne

Exhibited:

Jessie Traill, Important Women Artists Gallery, Melbourne, 11 June - 31 July 1977

(another example)

Stars in the River: The Prints of Jessie Traill, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 16 February - 14 June 2013 (touring exhibition), (illus. exhibition catalogue, p.130, another example)

Related Works:

Other examples of this work are held in the collections of the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, and the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Estimate: $2000 - 3000

Result Hammer: $1900